Story Musgrave, "An Artist's View of the Universe," Main Tent, Friday 3:30 p.m., "Being the Best You Can Be, Just for the Fun of It," Main Tent, Saturday 8:00 p.m., considers himself an artist, first. He was born and raised on a dairy farm in Stockbridge, MA, and ran off to Korea with the U.S. Marines before he finished school. He was an aircraft electrician & an engine mechanic, then started flying, and over the next 54 years accumulated 18,000 hours in over 160 aircraft. Story was a NASA astronaut for over 30 years and flew on six spaceflights. He performed the first shuttle spacewalk on Challenger's first flight, was a pilot on an astronomy mission, conducted two classified DOD missions, was the lead spacewalker on the Hubble Telescope repair mission and operated an electronic chip manufacturing satellite on Columbia.

Today Story runs a landscaping company in Orlando, a production company in Sydney, Australia and a sculpture company in Burbank, CA. He is also an artist with Walt Disney Imagineering, an innovator with Applied Minds Inc. and a professor of design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.

"An Artist's View of the Universe" As an artist, director, sculptor and designer he has selected images from his archives of the earth, the heavens and of space machinery that work the way classic art works. He will emphasize beauty, that positive experience that one feels in their body as well as in their intellect, and also work with images that communicate beyond the literal in rhetorical figures such as metaphor, allegory, analogy and fractal relationships. The meaning of these images shall be stretched into the architectural, design, existential and metaphysical worlds.

"Being the Best You Can Be, Just for the Fun of It" Story presents an autobiographical story in the context of what it could mean to others--from the particulars to those general principles of living that he has learned along the way. What "life lessons" he has extracted from his 71 years, with particular focus on his 30 years as an astronaut: what were the drives, where did the energy come from, who were the mentors, from where was the inspiration, how does a life evolve, what were the victories and defeats, the successes and failures, and how is one to achieve a transcendence beyond everyday life?